Assignment: Serving Journaling

Assignment: Serving Journaling

Assignment: Serving Journaling

Week 11 assignment Leadership Journal: Serving Journaling provides a valuable tool for recording, reflecting on, and reviewing your learning. This approach provides an opportunity for you to “connect the dots” and observe the relationships between and among activities, interactions, and outcomes. Unlike a personal journal of thoughts and feelings, this Leadership Journal is a record of your activities, assessments, and learning related to this academic experience. Journal entries should include a record of the number of hours spent with your nurse leader each week. Write a journal entry of 750-1,500 words on the subject of serving, including the following: Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in Weeks 9-10. Would your co-workers or those you “serve” consider you responsible for some aspect of their success? Describe a situation where you were able to assist another nurse with achieving a professional goal. Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Issue of Servant” video. APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Flooding emotions onto the page was how I made sense of the emotional turbulence of adolescence, which is how many now-lapsed journalers start out.

I had more time on my hands then. Didn’t we all? Even between theater rehearsals and cross-country practice, plus all the homework I had, journaling was easy to prioritize and the most reliable method to sort out my feelings.

As you’ve likely come to learn, any furious journaling you embraced as a teenager hasn’t been sustainable in adulthood. With more responsibility on our shoulders, less flexibility with our schedule, and myriad appointments, family commitments, and the rest of it, our time becomes our most precious commodity.

So, what’s a writer to do?

The answer is simple:

Choose the best journaling method for your lifestyle. 

5 Types of Journals

(& the Pros and Cons of Each)

1. Classic Journal

Classic journaling characteristics include long-form paragraphs, stream of conscious writing, and giving in to the impulse of putting pen to paper whenever you feel compelled.

Benefits

Ultimate freedom of expression lies within these pages. One day, you might analyze a relationship with a family member. The next day, you scribble in a poem. The day after that, you ponder life’s mysteries inspired by a long walk you took. Here, the mind can unwind.

A classic journal is whatever you want it to be and whatever you need it to be, often serving as a stress-reliever by helping you remain the present, releasing feelings of anger, sadness, or other intense emotions.

Drawbacks

This method lacks parameters and doesn’t provide a lot of structure. Classic journaling has the potential to make you feel as though you need to write a lot in order to make it count.

Self-inflicted pressure to write something insightful or meaningful is a common affliction, especially for folks who don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to journaling.